Report: Starbucks to include tipping on Square app

According to the Wall Street Journal, Starbucks, which currently only uses the payment features of the Square app, will deploy a feature that both automatically prompts a customer to leave a tip in appropriate situations and computes tip amounts for them.

The Square tipping feature prompts users to leave a tip roughly 45% to 50% of the time. It will automatically compute and offer three tipping options – basic (15%), better (18%) and best (20%). A Square spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal that most customers will select the “better” option when given those choices.

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